Articles about Cloud Computing – Page 4 of 7

Google Cloud touts new customers, reliability and machine learning — says it’s ‘here for real’

Google is on a mission to become a leading option for businesses making the shift to the cloud, and in the wake of… Read More

Microsoft will give Azure customers access to 10,000 patents to fight lawsuits

Microsoft will help its cloud computing customers fight lawsuits from patent trolls. As an added benefit to those paying for Microsoft… Read More

‘AWS on premises’ provider Stratoscale acquires database-as-a-service company Tesora

Cloud infrastructure startup Stratoscale is expanding its database services platform. The Israel-based company has acquired database-as-a-service provider Tesora, the companies announced… Read More

How cloud computing boosts NASA’s quest to explore the final frontier

When one of NASA’s top geeks talks to the cloud-computing geeks at Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference, you can bet… Read More

Drawn by cloud giants, New Zealand-based Raygun opens offices in Seattle

A New Zealand-based software-as-a-service company, Raygun, has joined the numerous other firms putting boots on the ground in Seattle to stake… Read More

F5 Networks dives further into the cloud in new expansion of its business

Seattle’s F5 Networks has done well by helping medium-sized and large companies improve the security and speed of their software,… Read More

Amazon Web Services to cut compute prices, continuing the decline in cloud costs

Amazon Web Services will cut the cost of its EC2 basic compute services among a limited number of regions by… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Celebrate the cloud at CloudNativeCon; GeekWire Radio Live at Fred Hutch; and more

The Seattle region may be known as the birthplace of Microsoft Windows and the seat of Amazon’s e-commerce empire, but the… Read More

Microsoft’s cancer moonshot: Debug the disease as if it’s a computer glitch

Microsoft researchers are doing a bug bash on cancer, complete with software code names like “Project Hanover.” Some of them… Read More

Sorry, Microsoft: Cloud price wars are still raging and will continue, researcher says

Competition to offer lower-cost cloud services hasn’t ended — in fact, the price wars may just be getting underway, according to an analyst… Read More

Carbon-free cloud: Microsoft sets ambitious goals for renewable energy

REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft is kicking up its targets for environmentally sustainable cloud computing by pledging that half of the electricity… Read More

Amazon’s cloud computing cash cow: AWS, now a $10B business, fuels record quarter for company

Amazon is happy about its cloud computing business, and so are investors. The Seattle-based company crushed analyst expectations for its… Read More

Interview: Why Microsoft is suing the U.S. Justice Department over cloud secrecy

Microsoft this morning filed suit against the U.S. Justice Department, seeking to overturn a provision of U.S. law that allows… Read More

HP, Microsoft and others invest $73.5M in Mesosphere cloud computing company

Mesosphere, a Silicon Valley cloud computing startup, announced today that it has raised a $73.5 million Series C funding round. The… Read More

Seattle is one of the hotspots to troll for cloud-computing talent, says NY Times

Because cloud computing is hot, because Seattle is home to some of the most advanced cloud-computing services, and because companies… Read More

Amazon spent $690 million on acquisitions in 2015, new filing shows

Amazon spent a total of $690 million on acquisitions in 2015, most of it in cash, according to the company’s annual… Read More

Amazon Web Services generated $2.4B in sales during Q4, up 69% from last year

Amazon’s cloud computing business continues to rake in substantial amounts of cash. Amazon Web Services generated $2.4 billion in net… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the battle over the cloud: ‘It’s a Seattle race’

Tech giants everywhere are fighting for their slice of the cloud pie, but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during an… Read More

Box teams up with IBM on cloud storage, making new inroads in the enterprise

IBM and Box are teaming up in an effort to bring a smarter, more centralized cloud-storage model to enterprise customers. Box will integrate… Read More

Blue Box founder Jesse Proudman on private clouds, bootstrapping and why he sold to IBM

Before IBM swooped in to buy Blue Box, the Seattle cloud computing startup entertained at least one other offer. Blue… Read More

Greenpeace blasts Amazon in latest cloud energy report, lauds Apple

Despite making a commitment to use more renewable energy to power its datacenters, Amazon was blasted in a new report… Read More

Azure Premium Storage becomes generally available for high-performance data needs

Microsoft announced today that Azure Premium Storage, a service providing high-performance data storage for users of its Azure cloud platform,… Read More

Amazon’s cloud computing unit is worth up to $50B, analyst says

Starting this year Amazon shareholders will know exactly how much revenue the company generates from its cloud computing business when it starts to… Read More

Alibaba opens first U.S. data center, challenging Amazon in the cloud

Alibaba is opening a data center in Silicon Valley — its first outside of China — stepping up its competition with Amazon… Read More

Amazon will break out Amazon Web Services financials in 2015; AWS usage up 90% in one year

Amazon investors and the public will soon have a better idea of how much revenue the company generates from its cloud… Read More

Amazon and Google wrestle over corporate secrets in cloud employment dispute

Google is seeking to formally intervene in a lawsuit filed by Amazon against a former Amazon Web Services employee who left the… Read More

Oracle to hire 100+ engineers in Seattle for new cloud infrastructure center

Seattle’s status as a cloud engineering hub just went up another notch with Oracle’s announcement that it’s opening a new Cloud Infrastructure… Read More

New York Times profiles Seattle as ‘the new center of a tech boom’

Seattle’s reputation as a leader in cloud computing is getting serious national attention. The New York Times today ran a… Read More

Ingram Micro invests in Parallels, in new alliance

Technology distributor Ingram Micro, one of the quiet giants of the industry, is making an equity investment in virtualization and… Read More

Titanfall or Titanfail? Will Microsoft’s cloud technology hold under pressure?

Microsoft will be center stage tonight as Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall begins to roll out at midnight across the globe. Not only… Read More